Restructuring Health Care in the United States
A Proposal for the 1990s
- Donald O. Nutter, MD;
- Charles M. Helms, MD, PhD;
- Michael E. Whitcomb, MD;
- W. Donald Weston, MD
- From the Office of the Vice Dean, Northwestern University School of Medicine, Chicago, Ill (Dr Nutter); the Department of Internal Medicine, University of Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City (Dr Helms); the Department of Internal Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle (Dr Whitcomb); and the Department of Radiology, Michigan State College of Human Medicine, East Lansing (Dr Weston).
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A PLAN for restructuring the US health care system to achieve universal access to medically necessary health care services has been developed by the Medical Schools Section of the American Medical Association (AMA). The plan is a pluralistic approach to comprehensive system reform that requires both individual and institutional responsibility for the achievement of quality health care. A set of broad strategies are proposed to reach the goal of universal access to care in the context of responsible containment of health care costs. The plan proposes to achieve universal access through reform of our existing system of health care as follows: by restructuring and reforming Medicaid and Medicare, by supporting universal provision of necessary health benefits through employers; and by the creation of regional insurance pools for those individuals who are not covered by government programs or through their workplace. The additional cost of these strategies for universal access would
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This work was sponsored by the Medical Schools Section of the American Medical Association, Chicago, Ill. The policy opinions expressed in this report are those of the authors, and may not reflect those of their academic institutions or the American Medical Association. Drs Nutter, Helms, and Whitcomb previously served as Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellows at the Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC.
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